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Jeremiah watches returning families replant an olive sapling as paths diverge at dawn.
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Jeremiah 12:14-17

Compassion after uprooting

The Trampled Vineyard and the Return · Jeremiah 12

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14Thus says Yahweh concerning all my wicked neighbors who touch the inheritance that I caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I am about to uproot them from upon their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

15And it will happen, after I have uprooted them, that I will return and have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.

16And it will happen that if they indeed learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.

17But if they do not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uprooting and destroying it, declares Yahweh.

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